If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives. I think… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Back in the 1960s , I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share
As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign. — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy. — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? — Camille Paglia Copy Share
In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share
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![“I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives. I think it's criminal - child abuse - that they're not told to do this [in school]. Right now it's just sex education and putting condoms on bananas. Girls should be asked to think about what…” quote by Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7bb/camille-paglia-652_abuse_i-want-young-women-when-they-re-14-to-st_1348279.jpg)
![“The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.” quote by Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/87e/camille-paglia-652_1960s_the-venerable-emeritus-professors-still_309445.png)
